{"id":11915,"date":"2015-08-02T15:38:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T19:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11915"},"modified":"2015-08-02T15:39:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T19:39:55","slug":"sorting-algorithm-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/02\/sorting-algorithm-animations\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting Algorithm Animations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorting-algorithms.com\">Sorting-Algorithms.com<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/freakonometrics\/status\/607592010636140544\">Arthur Charpentier<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.sorting-algorithms.com\">        <p>\n            These pages show 8 different sorting algorithms on 4 different\n            initial conditions. These visualizations are intended to:\n        <\/p>\n        <ul>\n            <li> Show how each algorithm operates.<\/li>\n            <li> Show that there is no best sorting algorithm.<\/li>\n            <li> Show the advantages and disadvantages of each algorithm.<\/li>\n            <li>\n                Show that worse-case asymptotic behavior is not always the deciding\n                factor in choosing an algorithm.\n            <\/li>\n            <li> Show that the initial condition (input order and key\n                distribution) affects performance as much as the\n                algorithm choice.\n            <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quicksort.herokuapp.com\">@philcrissman<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philcrissman\/status\/627172111467937792\">Seth Dillingham<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/quicksort.herokuapp.com\"><p>QUICKSORT implemented in place in JavaScript, with accompanying visualization performed by <a href=\"http:\/\/raphaeljs.com\/\">RaphaelJS<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorting-Algorithms.com (via Arthur Charpentier): These pages show 8 different sorting algorithms on 4 different initial conditions. These visualizations are intended to: Show how each algorithm operates. Show that there is no best sorting algorithm. Show the advantages and disadvantages of each algorithm. Show that worse-case asymptotic behavior is not always the deciding factor in choosing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[289,263,71],"class_list":["post-11915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-algorithm","tag-theory","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11917,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915\/revisions\/11917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}